Offset your carbon emissions


Programs around the world


 

Our Carbon Offset Programs:
 


 

 
How to offset your CO2 emissions?







Carbon offset is one way to fight against climate change.

Carbon offset allows a company or activity to offset the equivalent of its GHG emissions that cannot be reduced any further (which are called “incompressible emissions”), by investing in one or several GHG emission reduction projects in a developing country.
This mechanism enables to reduce, in a developing country, a GHG volume equivalent to the one produced by the emitting country.

There are two types of carbon offset projects:
  • Voluntary carbon offset projects (Voluntary Emissions Reductions, VERs)
     
  • And certified carbon offset projects, resulting from CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) under the Kyoto Protocol, which are registered by the UNCCC (Certified Emission Reductions, CERs).
For a company, offsetting through the voluntary carbon offset mechanism means balancing its carbon footprint, acting voluntarily towards eventually reducing its carbon footprint to the minimum, preparing for future emissions international or national regulation, and positioning itself as a responsible company taking part of the ongoing change.

 

EcoAct has signed and complies by the ADEME charter for voluntary carbon offset.

EcoAct chose to select carbon offset projects that carry social aspects (by helping underprivileged local populations), and implements the projects by connecting all the local actors and stakeholders together: environmental associations, NGOs, corporations, governments, and local reinsertion associations.

EcoAct carbon offset projects are all based on CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) methodologies – governed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) rules - and are audited by independent auditors licensed by the UNFCCC.

The EcoAct experts’ team also directly implements each project and manages each project completion and follow-up locally.


Our Values:

EcoAct’s core values are the environment protection and social benefits.


EcoAct carbon offset projects’ main features:
  • All projects are based in a developing country, as listed in the Kyoto Protocol
     
  • Voluntary and certified carbon offset projects
     
  • Following the UNFCCC methodologies

EcoAct carbon offset projects offer :

 
- Renewable energy Hydroelectricity, biomass, windpower, solar energy, etc.
- Energy efficiency Industry, transportation, service industry, domestic services, agriculture, etc. 
- Land and forests preservation Reafforestation, avoided deforestation
- Methane channeling and energy use            

 

 

 
Biogas farms (Brazil)
Porcine breeding intensification in Brazil has deep environmental impact. Farming waste is gathered in mill ponds, where its decomposition generates high GHG emissions.
The objective is to substitute open-air waste ponds with anaerobic biodigesters, to store the generated biogas, and to generate electricity. This project will benefit to 27 farms in Brazil.

 
'Along the water' Malana (India)
This project objective is to substitute the powerplants in the Kullu district, that are heavily consuming fossil fuel, with hydroelectricity plants. The installation of a hydroelectricity plant of 2 X 43 MW "along the water" was carried out on the Malana river, in the village of Jari.
The activity of the plant has provided new sources of income in the region by creating new jobs.
 
Wind farms (China)
China uses mostly coal plants to satisfy its huge energy needs. But the air pollution related to those plants creates problems for urban population as well as rural population, like respiratory diseases. Windmills are an efficient and completely natural energy source alternative.

 
Heat recovery (China)
This project enables to substitute fossil energy with the recovery of residual heat from production lines in cement works, which is then transformed into energy and allows the plant to be self-sufficient in terms of energy needs.

 
Storehouses of Sahel
The Storehouses of Sahel uses a clean and innovative technology to produce cold storage with no electricity consumption at all. This program follows the partnership initiated between iTERRae and EcoAct. This project involves the construction of storehouses of 100m3 each to better preserve food for the local population, and also to help develop exportation activities.

 
The Yungas Biosphere Reserve
The principle of this project is to generate a carbon sink in the Yungas Biosphere Reserve through the reforestation of some 1,000 hectares which represents more than one million trees, and thus to preserve the biodiversity of this place.



 


 

EcoAct has signed and complies by the ADEME charter for voluntary carbon offset.


For more information,  visit the ADEME homepage.

To download the ADEME charter for voluntary carbon offset, click here.



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